During the heated public debates on the omnibus crime Bill C-10, Canadian progressives argued that the Harper Government’s controversial legislation was the beginning of the privatization of Canada’s prison system. Turns out that a leading U.S. prison profiteering company lobbied the federal Public Safety Minister and other Canadian officials. So
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DeSmogBlog: Marcellus Money: Statehouse Bought and Sold by Shale Gas Industry in PA
marcellusmoney.jpeg Consider it official: the Pennsylvania statehouse has been bought and sold by the shale gas industry, confirmed today, yet again, by MarcellusMoney.org. In a press release, Marcellus Money, a project of Common Cause of Pennsylvania and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania laid out the sobering facts about the frackers' stranglehold
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: It’s "NOT" Right to Give Oda All the Blame.
Elisabeth May wrote a very interesting post on the Green Party website that I suggest you read. I do agree that 16$ for orange juice is a complete waste. As well was the overly expensive trips by Limo funded by the tax payers. And yes misuse of public money definitively warrants criticism. Her resignation is long overdue, but
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Fraud prevention and recovery
Simi Sara made a worthwhile demand on her CKNW show today. The British Columbia should lift the gag orders imposed on Dave Basis and Bob Virk that formed a part of the inducements paid the defendants to end the BC Rail trial. The public is not served by those gag
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Time for the corporate media to step up
The first thing you read today should be this piece by Alex G. Tsakumis: ‘EXCLUSIVE’ BREAKING NEWS: DAVE BASI CONFIRMS CHRISTY CLARK COMMITTED A BREACH OF TRUST WHILE SHE WAS DEPUTY PREMIER AND THUS LIED TO THE MEDIA IN 2011 WHEN SHE CLAIMED TO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
Continue readingNorthern Insight: What’s hidden from the Auditor General ?
Vancouver Sun’s excellent business writer David Baines considers tax implications of government paying $6 million in legal fees for convicted criminals Basi & Virk. $6-million question: Should corrupt aides pay tax for defence? David Baines, Vancouver Sun, June 23, 2012 “Is the $6 million in legal fees that taxpayers paid
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – It’s a few months old, but the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy’s comparison of U.S. states with a zero personal income tax to those with the highest tax levels looks like one of the most clear refutations yet of the idea that
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 6/6)
1991 – REFORM PARTY RHETORICThe Reform’s early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991 stating that Reformers opposed “any immigration based on race or creed or designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic
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1923 – THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT In 1861, a Victoria newspaper was welcoming: “We have plenty of room for many thousands of Chinamen. … There can be no shadow of a doubt but their industry enables them to add very largely to our own revenues.” But after the Canadian Pacific
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1906 — INDIANS NEED NOT NAVIGATE TO CANADAThen-Clerk of the Privy Council, Rodolphe Boudreau wrote on the restriction of immigration from the Orient, in particular British East Indians: “Experience has shown that immigrants of this class, having been accustomed to the conditions of a tropical climate, are wholly unsuited to
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1898 – BARRIERS FOR BLACKSThere was — as government correspondence in Ottawa records now makes clear–a long series of letters exchanged among immigration authorities worried about how to be functionally anti-Black without seeming anti-Black. Since much of its recruitment of immigrants was done by mail, it became difficult for immigration
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Canada’s Selective Immigration Strategy: an Evolution (Part 1/6)
Canadians from coast to coast have expressed concern about the pending drastic changes to the rules surrounding immigration buried in the 400-page omnibus bill. As the House of Commons debates the voluminous bill, little time is devoted to dissecting the hundreds of policy changes. Those Canadians who study history regard
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jim Stanford sets the record straight as to how Canada’s manufacturing sector has eroded over the past couple of decades: (T)echnology can explain some of the job loss, but not most of it. It certainly cannot explain the disproportionate carnage in Canadian
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Spread this story and these links
Ian Reid adroitly captures the question to be answered about BC Rail: “Why did the BC Liberals want to shut the trial down? What were they so afraid of that they would compromise the civil service, the administration of justice and maybe even the law to keep it out of
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford Is Doing Bad, Bad Things
Centa says the questions of whether Ford improperly took funding from his family company and overspent his campaign limit are important to the provincial Municipal Elections Act, and to democracy itself. “Mr. Ford was, and is, represented by excellent counsel and we think the interests of justice are best served
Continue readingbastard.logic: David Banner on the Shooting of Trayvon Martin: “We Have to Get Some Type of Legislation Now.”
Gulf Coast hip hop impresario David Banner drops some straight knowledge re: Trayvon, race, and class in the US of A in this BlackEnterprise.com interview: “The fact [is] we have to get some type of legislation now. “What do we want to see implemented to make sure this doesn’t happen
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Austerity: The High Cost of Tax Cuts
Austerity is a most vile concept, particularly when you think of just how rich Canada is.
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate Change Conspiracy Revealed
* Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: Expert Credibility In Climate Change Open Secrets: Senator James Inhofe, Top Industry Funders
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Cancer Cured … But Not Funded
Did we find a cure for cancer and we’re doing nothing to make it happen?
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Canada: Wake Up to Rampant Conservative Election Fraud
Elizabeth May elaborates on the many accounts of fraud committed by the Conservatives. We need to demand action now.
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